La quatrième voie vers l'utopie

Et si je pouvais créer l'utopie que je veux grâce au rêve lucide ?

Le personnage principal, Mu-deuk, apprend les «rêves éveillés» à travers le Blue Tower Dream Café, et avec la détermination de voler de ses propres ailes, il s'entraîne à prendre conscience de ses rêves étape par étape. Tak-wu, le PDG du Blue Tower Dream Café, a remarqué Mu-deuk et propose à Mu-deuk s'il souhaite se joindre à lui pour construire une utopie dans Waking Dreams. Une porte blanche et une porte noire sur le chemin de l'utopie. Tak-wu dit à Mu-deuk qu'il ne peut entrer dans l'utopie que par la porte blanche. Mu-deuk vit l'utopie au-delà de la porte blanche, mais c'est une liberté qui ne peut être appréciée qu'au sein de l'ordre de Tak-wu. Est-ce vraiment la quatrième voie vers l'utopie ?

ユートピアへ行く四つ目の方法

この本は、夢の中でユートピアの建設を目指す人物たちを通して、真のユートピアの意味を振り返る。ムドゥクは青い塔の夢カフェを通じて「起きている夢」を知り、どんな器具にも頼らず自分の力で飛びたい一心で、夢を自覚する訓練から段階的に実施する。カフェの代表タクウはムドゥクに「起きている夢」でユートピアを建設することに参加しないかと提案する。ユートピアへの道しるべに置かれた白い扉と黒い扉。タクウは、白い扉を通らなければユートピアに行けないと言う。ムドゥクは白い扉の向こうでユートピアを経験するが、それはタクウの秩序の中でしか享受できない自由でしかない。これが本当にユートピアへの第四の道なのだろうか？

The Fourth Way to Utopia

In this novel, the protagonists work to build a utopia in their dreams, thereby presenting readers with the fundamental question of what a utopia truly means. 

Mudeuk passes the civil service exams that will allow him to serve as a low-ranking official in government. Since then, he gets a job at a district office in his local neighborhood. While the job was hard-earned, he must deal with civilian complaints day in and day out, which makes his life mundane and repetitive. He finds his life boring and meaningless. One day, he learns of "lucid dreaming" at the Blue Tower Dream Café, and he begins training himself to perceive his own dreams, with the goal to be able to fly without relying on any devices or instruments. The CEO of the café, Takwoo, sees Mudeuk's hard work and proposes to him that he join the effort to build a utopia through lucid dreaming. On the way to utopia lies a white door and a black door. Takwoo tells him that the only way to utopia is through the white door. Mudeuk follows Takwoo past the white door and experiences utopia, but only within the order constructed by Takwoo. Is this really the fourth way to utopia? 

By using the bizarre context of an imagined world through lucid dreaming, the author points to the cold realities of our world where dreams are difficult to achieve. The characters in the novel, who must each confront the structural limitations of society and their own various emotional deficiencies, search for their own version of utopia. The author's insightful probing into the social symptoms suffered by contemporary audiences is rendered carefully in the narrative of this book, which gives the novel its driving force as it propels the plot forward. 

The characters are gifted a cruel yet beautiful world through their lucid dreaming. Author Jeong Gwangmo's characteristic imagination forms the worldview of this novel, and his noir-esque narratives along with the social symptoms that underline his motives, create a new type of utopia. Readers will do well to delve into the journey of the characters as they work to realize their own utopias through lucid dreaming."

루시드 드림을 통해 내가 원하는 유토피아를 만들 수 있다면

주인공 무득은 푸른 탑 꿈 카페를 통해 ‘깨어있는 꿈’을 알게 되고, 스스로 하늘을 날고 싶다는 일념으로, 꿈을 자각하는 훈련부터 차근차근 한다. 그런 무득을 눈여겨본 푸른 탑 꿈 카페 대표 탁우는 무득에게 ‘깨어있는 꿈’에서 유토피아를 건설하는 데 동참하지 않겠냐고 제안한다. 유토피아로 가는 길목에 놓인 흰 문과 검은 문. 탁우는 오직 흰 문을 통해서만 유토피아로 갈 수 있다고 말한다. 무득은 흰 문 너머에서 유토피아를 경험하지만, 그것은 탁우의 질서 내에서만 누릴 수 있는 자유일 뿐이다. 이것이 정말 유토피아로 가는 네 번째 방법일까?